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Innovation vs. Sustainability? New Open-Access Book shows how Public Procurement can do both

Introduction: A New Era for Public Procurement Innovation and Sustainability Does public procurement need more rules or new ones to be a strategic engine for a greener and innovative Europe? The SAPIENS Network is proud to announce the publication of "Rules for a New...

Do Civil Society Organizations Have a Role in Promoting Sustainable and Gender-Responsive Public Procurement?

Public procurement, simply put, is the process of buying goods, works, and services by the public sector. At first glance, it may seem like the only stakeholders are the government employees making the purchases and the suppliers providing the goods and services....

New Publication: Analysing the Drivers for Sustainable Public Procurement

1. Drivers for sustainable public procurement Early Stage Researcher Felippe Santos, SAPIENS Lead Researcher Rodrigo Lozano, and Lead Researcher Maria Barreiro-Gen recently published their open-access article entitled “Analysing the drivers for sustainable public...

Developing a harmonic sustainable public procurement framework

On 15 December 2022, SAPIENS Lead Researcher Rodrigo Lozano, Early Stage Researcher Felippe Santos, and Lead Researcher Maria Barreiro-Gen published together their article entitled "Developing a harmonic sustainable public procurement framework". This article was published (open access) in the...

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New playbook on Inclusive Public Procurement

Lead Researcher Associate Professor Marta Andhov participated in the UNDP Business Call to Action’s (BCtA) 12th Annual Forum as an expert in Public Procurement. At the event, the playbook on Inclusive Public Procurement was released. As part of the launch event, the UNDP team assembled a panel of...

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Towards socially responsible public procurement

On 31 March- 1 April, the Academy of European Law (ERA) held the Annual Conference on European Public Procurement Law 2022 in Trier, Germany. As one of the speakers at the conference, SAPIENS Network Coordinator Prof. Roberto Caranta (University of Turin) gave a presentation on the main practical...

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